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McQueen is still potentially a good movie actor, but he needs someone to loosen him up, make him play a part, not pose for it. In Le Mans he has surrounded himself with the sort of second-rate production talent that offers no protest to his rampant self-indulgence. Le Mans may be the most famous auto race in the world, but from a theater seat it just looks like a big drag...
GIVE THE ADMINISTRATION greater flexibility in dispensing arms and military grants abroad. Nixon's proposed International Security Assistance Act would loosen the credit requirements for some favored nations seeking U.S. arms through sales, surplus grants and direct money aid. The $1.99 billion program-part of a foreign aid package totaling $3.2 billion -would be administered by a single coordinator at the State Department, although the White House would exercise supervision through the National Security Council and the Council on International Economic Policy. The new proposal emphasizes hardware instead of supporting troops, and would, the White House hopes, lead...
...couldn't have happened to a more vulnerable guy. Hank Glyczwycz is a bitter middle-aged cynic. He was just beginning to loosen up to his students' sweet faith in love and peace highs when Gloria wrecks him with her disclosure. She is the forgotten illegitimate daughter from a distant love affair...
...saber, Larry Cetrulo won all three of his matches, Rick Tolbert took two, and Ken Hetzler split two. Foilman Tom Keller continued to fence brilliantly and won two bouts, allowing his opponents only two touches. "Rutgers wasn't tough at all. But they did loosen us up for Princeton," Irvings said last night...
...ground troops or advisers in Cambodia. (A similar measure, adopted in December 1969, prohibits sending U.S. ground forces to Laos and Thailand.) After hearing Laird's testimony, Armed Services Chairman John Stennis declared that "the margin is so thin" in Cambodia that it might be necessary to loosen the strictures of Cooper-Church to allow some U.S. personnel to act as air controllers on the ground. Was he launching a trial balloon for the Administration? The idea provoked a bitter comment from South Dakota's George McGovern: "Any Senator who talks about sending American forces into Cambodia should...